INNOVATION TOOLS -- While in the middle of reviewing student journals, I've stumbled across techniques of visualisation that challenge my assumptions about "ideation skills." I've always thought that people can achieve eureka moments by doodling. By scratching things on paper, they can illuminate repressed ideas. By analysing your boxes and arrows, you substantiate the way-out ideas. Among peers, you apply judgment to evaluate the ideas.
As Eric Sohn says, "Effective innovation is, at its heart, like two funnels placed end-to-end. Ideation is divergent, serving up both the mundane and the fanciful. Analysis and execution is convergent, finding out feasibility, tweaking things so they work, and making stuff happen. If you didn't try to have the random thought, you'd be stuck in a world of incremental innovation. How much fun would that be?"
Chuck Frey -- "Interesting observation on inovation"
Eric Sohn -- "I want my box"
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